As a faculty member in the MFA Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Louden teaches professional practice and studio classes to all levels, and her work has been collected by and exhibited in numerous institutions. She is the editor of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life books, published by Intellect Books and distributed by the University of Chicago Press. The final in the series, Last Artist Standing, will be published in 2022. As a Glowtown facilitator for schools and non-profits, and the Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution, where she organizes a popular lecture series, we are thrilled to host the accomplished and kind Sharon Louden.

Facilitated by Assistant Curator and Director of Galleries, Meredith Lynn, the conversation will address the art world’s state in this particular moment and how the economic downturn is impacting arts organizations, artists, and publishing. To register, visit Q&A with Sharon Louden

Let’s make collages! During this virtual Make it With MoFA, Program Coordinator Annie Booth and MoFA intern Courtney Normandin will assist you as you make your own collage landscape. While you are finding and cutting out your source images, Annie will lead a presentation and conversation exploring how work in New Landscapes transforms the familiar landscape into something new. This event is free and open to the public. All you need is scissors, paper, glue, and old books or magazines. To register:  Landscape Collages

FAR & Away Conversations are hosted by the FSU Facility for Arts Research in the College of Fine Arts. Each of these virtual events feature a prominent artist, who has been a previous FAR Research Fellow, engaging in an illuminating conversation with a peer, collaborator, or mentor loosely based on common interests that intersect in their work. These events will be live-streamed and give the audience the ability to contribute in real time by asking questions via chat. Invited artists range in discipline from movement and performance to social engagement and from authors and poets to installation. Please register for event here: FAR & Away Conversations

About the Artists
Kelly Lloyd is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist who focuses on issues of representation and knowledge production, and prioritizes public-facing collaborative research. Lloyd received a dual M.F.A. in Painting and M.A. in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015, and earned a B.A. from Oberlin College in 2008. In 2019, she completed the Starr Fellowship at the Royal Academy Schools; had solo exhibitions at the Royal Academy Schools (London), Crybaby (Berlin), Bill’s Auto (Chicago) and Dirty House (London); lectured at the Edinburgh College of Art and The Ruskin School of Art; collaborated on public programming at rum 46 (Aarhus), Raven Row (London) and Block 336 (London); and was granted a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, the Art Licks Workweek Prize, and a Step Travel Grant. She began her DPhil in Fine Art at the University of Oxford this Fall. www.k-lloyd.com

Yalie Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-American writer, researcher, and a native of Oakland, California. She’s the author of A Brief Biography of My Name, which was included in New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano) (African Poetry Book Series/Akashic Books, 2018) and When The Living Sing (Ledge Mule Press, 2017). She has received fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center, Callaloo, and The National Book Critics Circle, and was a finalist for the Brunel African Poetry Prize. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, Bloomington and is a doctoral student in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Cincinnati. www.yaylala.com

For more information, contact events@cfa.fsu.edu.

Let’s make collages! During this virtual Make it With MoFA, Program Coordinator Annie Booth and MoFA intern Courtney Normandin will assist you as you make your own collage landscape. While you are finding and cutting out your source images, Annie will lead a presentation and conversation exploring how work in New Landscapes transforms the familiar landscape into something new. This event is free and open to the public. All you need is scissors, paper, glue, and old books or magazines. To register: Landscape Collages

In this discussion, Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham will shed light on her work through Museum Hue and share the ways that Culturally Specific Museums are boldly responding to the needs of their community and addressing current issues through their narratives, programs, exhibitions and services. She will share the critical ways museums help shape, define and preserve today for the future. To register: Lecture Series .